Category: Cloud Security

  • Cloud Doesn’t Mean Secure

    Cloud Doesn’t Mean Secure

    ~ 5 MIN READ

    We moved to the cloud, so we are secure now. It is the most common sentence in boardroom security briefings. It is also, almost always, wrong.

  • The Real Cost of Cloud When You Actually Count

    The Real Cost of Cloud When You Actually Count

    ~ 5 MIN READ

    A field guide to the real cost of cloud in 2026, with what the line items are, what the operations team is being asked to fix, and the part about the FinOps team that is being asked to do the work the engineering team is not doing.

  • Kubernetes Cost Optimization: The Honest Guide

    Kubernetes Cost Optimization: The Honest Guide

    ~ 5 MIN READ

    Kubernetes cost in 2026 amounts to the line item the typical enterprise did not budget for, with the typical enterprise running 50-500 Kubernetes clusters, with the cluster cost running at $50K-$500K per year per cluster, with the cost growing 30-50% per year as the cluster usage grows. The honest guide covers where the cost sits,…

  • The Kubernetes Security Checklist

    The Kubernetes Security Checklist

    ~ 5 MIN READ

    A field guide to Kubernetes security in 2026, with the checklist that actually matters, the order to apply the items, and the items that are pure theatre.

  • What Cloud Storage Egress Actually Costs in 2026

    What Cloud Storage Egress Actually Costs in 2026

    ~ 5 MIN READ

    Cloud storage egress in 2026 sits as the line item that surprised the budget in 2020, that surprised the budget in 2023, and that will surprise the budget in 2026. The egress fee for moving data out of AWS, or Azure, or GCP runs at $0.05 to $0.12 per gigabyte, the typical enterprise moves 100+…

  • A Field Guide to the DevSecOps Pipeline

    A Field Guide to the DevSecOps Pipeline

    ~ 5 MIN READ

    A field guide to the DevSecOps pipeline in 2026, with the gates that actually catch the real bugs, the gates that are pure theatre, and the order that the gates should fire in without slowing the team down.

  • Multi-Cloud Is Not the Answer (But You Will Do It Anyway)

    Multi-Cloud Is Not the Answer (But You Will Do It Anyway)

    ~ 5 MIN READ

    Multi-cloud sits as the strategy the consulting firm sold the board in 2019 and the operations team has been trying to make work since. The pitch was vendor lock in avoidance, the cost optimisation, the resilience. The reality sits as the second cloud account nobody can fully account for, the second identity system nobody wants…

  • The Shadow Cloud Problem Nobody Is Mapping

    The Shadow Cloud Problem Nobody Is Mapping

    ~ 5 MIN READ

    Shadow cloud refers to the cloud accounts, cloud workloads, and cloud services that the enterprise has lost track of. The lost cloud accounts, the cloud workloads that the enterprise does not know exist, the cloud services the team signed up for with a credit card and forgot. The shadow cloud problem in 2026 ranks as…

  • The Cloud Misconfiguration Tax You Are Paying

    The Cloud Misconfiguration Tax You Are Paying

    ~ 5 MIN READ

    The cloud misconfiguration tax shows up in three places. Most organisations do not see all three. Here is what you are actually paying, and what the fix costs.

  • The Real Cost of Cloud Egress

    The Real Cost of Cloud Egress

    ~ 5 MIN READ

    The cloud egress bill used to be the line item nobody looked at. In 2026 it has become the line item the finance team has started asking about, the line item the cloud architect has started designing around, the line item that decides whether the multi-cloud strategy pays back the cost.